When Reza Moazami testified in March in B.C. Supreme Court against multiple charges of sexual assault, procuring a person to become a prostitute and human trafficking, claimed he didn’t know anything about most of that. He did admit — as National Post writer Brian Hutchison wrote — that he was “a steroid-popping drug dealer who ‘worked with’ almost a dozen, young, female prostitutes until his arrest in 2011.”

As for some of the other evidence that crown prosecutors had entered into the record earlier (including the testimony of 11 of the victims, including one who said she was 14 when she started working for Moazami), the 29-year-old Iranian immigrant claimed ignorance.

The trial was adjourned after Moazami completed his testimony. The case, which started in September, was never supposed to have taken so long. But because it did, it meant that the judge had already been booked for other trials.

So, final arguments won’t start until June 10 and are scheduled to take a week.

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